31st July 2012 With social spaces for diversity shrinking, the recent suicides in the transgender community should be a wake-up call for better support structures In the past 10 days, three transpersons took their lives in Kerala and Karnataka. 18-year old Sujata (name changed), a female to male (FTM) transgender (TG) wanted to go back to her family. But when her family rejected her on account of her gender, she drank poison.